Their Plight

Coral Reefs these days are not only suffering the hammer-blows of catastrophic bleaching events.

They’re also being subjected to a slow, vise-like squeezing, as our carbon emissions steadily increase the background temperature and acidity of the water around them to levels that most corals haven’t encountered before. Source

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These Antarctic birds mostly live on tiny crustaceans called krill.

Krill live on the undersides of ice sheets, where they find refuge and algae as food.

But as Antarctic sea ice retreats, krill populations are falling—meaning that the penguins have to migrate farther to find food.

Spending a lot more energy to find food makes penguins less successful at breeding and raising young, the scientists said. Source

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Climate change is an additional, rapidly emerging threat to marine turtles globally.

Rising sea levels and extreme weather events wash nests away and decrease nesting habitat.

In sea turtles, sand temperature determines the gender of developing young – warmer eggs turn into females, cooler eggs turn into males.

Under global warming, turtle sex ratios are likely to become skewed, resulting in population decrease. Source

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The majestic Polar Bear, a flagship for climate change awareness, is facing an uncertain future due to dwindling sea ice in its Arctic habitat.

Longer, warmer summers are causing much of the Arctic Ocean to be ice-free for extended periods of time, decreasing the bears’ access to their primary prey – seals.

Consequently, the bears are forced to spend more time foraging on land, where they are at risk of coming into conflict with humans. Source

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) now lists global warming as the most significant threat to the Polar Bear.

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The Koala, Australia’s most iconic fluffy marsupial, is likely to become rarer over the next century due to global warming.

Koalas have an extremely specialized diet consisting only of eucalyptus leaves. Increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are decreasing the nutritional value of leaves, resulting in Koala malnutrition and starvation.

Longer and more frequent droughts will increase the occurrence of bushfires, which kill millions of forest-dwelling animals like Koalas.

Koalas will also increasingly be forced to descend from trees in search of water and new habitats during dry conditions, exposing them to predators and road traffic. Source

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A number of traits make them vulnerable to a changing climate, including a declining population size, sensitivity to high temperatures, invasive plant species outcompeting their regular food sources, and susceptibility to disease.

Asian elephants also have a low adaptive capacity due to a limited dispersal ability (stemming from increasing habitat fragmentation), a long generation time, a slow reproductive rate and only moderate amounts of genetic variation within the species. Source

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Many of the predicted consequences of climate change, such as increasing temperatures, changes in rainfall patterns and more erratic or extreme weather events, will have impacts on pollinator populations.

Some of these changes could affect pollinators individually and ultimately their communities, becoming reflected in higher extinction rates of pollinator species. Source

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Like most butterflies, monarchs are highly sensitive to weather and climate: They depend on environmental cues (temperature in particular) to trigger reproduction, migration, and hibernation.

Their dependence on milkweed alone as a host plant is a further vulnerability, particularly as milkweed abundance is declining throughout the monarch range.

They also face a decline in their overwinter habitat, and the effects of an increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as drought and severe storms, and extremes in hot and cold temperatures. Source

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